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AMERICAN HISTORY 
VERSIFIED 

PART I. 



SOMERVILLE SERIES 
I. 

AMERICAN 
HISTORY 
VERSIFIED 

BY 

FELIX FABER 



NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON 
THE NEALE PUBLISHING CO, 

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Two Cooies Received 

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COPYRIGHT, 1905 

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M. D. HUGER 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 

Introduction . , , 7 

Dedication ° 

Motto 8 

The New World 9 

Christopher Columbus IO 

North America IT 

Mexico - I2 

The Montezumas J 3 

The Pacific Ocean I 4 

Canada l $ 

The Mississippi River l6 

Virginia J 7 

Captain John Smith l8 

New York J 9 

The Pilgrim Fathers 2 ° 

New England 2I 

King Philip's War 22 

Delaware 2 3 

Maryland 2 4 

Carolina 2 5 

Pennsylvania 26 

Georgia 2 7 

The Colonies 3 r 

French and Indian Wars 3 2 



CONTENTS— Continued 

PAGE 

The Revolutionary War 33 

Lexington 34 

The Declaration of Independence 35 

Valley Forge and Saratoga 36 

Tarleton and Cornwallis 37 

The Constitution 38 

The United States 39 

Our Navy 40 

Peace and Prosperity 41 

Sons of Anak 42 

The Mexican War 43 

The Great West 44 

The War Between the States 45 

Manassas and Vicksburg 46 

The First Ironclads 47 

Gettysburg to Appomattox 48 

Lincoln and Garfield 49 

Expansion 50 

The Spanish War 51 

Our Country 52 

Dates 53 

Thirteen Colonies 54 

Wars and Events 55 

War Between the States 57 

Presidents and Vice-Presidents 58 



INTRODUCTION 

This History is written in forty-one 
stanzas, one for each week of the school 
year. It is preferable to have children 
learn it in a shorter period. Then a week- 
ly recitation, said or sung in unison, will 
fix indelibly in young memories a syste- 
matic sketch of American History. 

Important dates have, so far as possible, 
been introduced so that the rhymes may 
suggest them. Memorable words of our 
great men have also been embodied, be- 
cause they imprint moral lessons at an age 
when the mind is "wax to receive and 
marble to retain." 

Experienced teachers are aware that 
memory drill should be begun young 
and that promptness and accuracy can 
never be attained without careful and 
early culture of that faculty. If the child 
is old enough to understand, it becomes 
interested in history, and this is important 
to its progress; but, in any case, rhymes 
improve the verbal memory and thus 
have essential value as memory exer- 

cises - FELIX FABER, 



Dear children, learn these little verses; 

Our History each one rehearses. 

"Love thou thy land with love far 

brought," 
Heed well this truth the poet taught. 
And love the Scribe who seeks your 

pleasure 
And shows a zeal that knows no measure. 



"I care not who make the laws of the country if 
I may make its ballads." 

— Andrew Fletcher. 



I 

THE NEW WORLD 

1492 In fourteen hundred and ninety-two 
Columbus crossed the ocean blue, 
One hundred and twenty brave sailors 
had he 
Friday, When from Palos, in Spain, he set out 

August 3. Q , er the gea 

Which no man before had dared to ex- 
plore, 
Friday, And reached the far island of San Sal- 
vador. 

He planted the Cross ; and their banners 
unfurled, 

"To Castille and Leon he gave a New 
World."* 



October 



*"Por Castilla y por Leon, Nuevo Mundo hallo' 
Colon," is the legend on the coat of arms granted 
by Ferdinand and Isabella to Columbus when he 
was made a noble, or grandee of Spain. 



II 

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 

MarC i h 4 93 When with Indians and gold his vessels 

returned,* 
All Europe with zeal for discovery burned. 
Amerigo sailed, and from charts which 

he framed, 
The Continent found was America named. 
Isabel pledged her jewels, the Pinzons 

befriend, 
But Columbus first stood this egg on its 

end. 
Then Cuba and Hayti he conquered for 

Spain ; 
His shameful reward was a dungeon and 

chain. 



*The fleet consisted of three small vessels. The 
Santa Maria, the largest, (ioo tons), was com- 
manded by Columbus himself; the Nina, by Martin 
Alonzo Pinzon, and the Pint a by Vicente Pinzon. 
Columbus was required to pay one-eighth of the 
expense and the Pinzon brothers, wealthy mer- 
chants of Palos, lent him this sum and then 
volunteered to accompany him. 

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NORTH AMERICA 

1497 North America was to Europe unknown, 
(Unless the old Vikings were hitherward 

blown), 
'Till Sebastian, the son, with old John 

Cabot, 
To Newfoundland sailed, and it fell to 

their lot 
The banner of England, our forefathers' 

boast, 
To fling to the breeze as they followed the 

coast 
From the bays, and mountains, and islands 

of Maine 
To Georgia; and then back to England 

again. 



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IV 

MEXICO 

1519 Cortez crossed the Gulf to the Mexican 
coast ; 

Six hundred tried soldiers were all of his 
host. 

He burned his own ships, though his sol- 
diers entreat. 

They must conquer, or die, who cannot 
retreat. 

The Aztecs were brave, but believing that 
then, 

Their gods had come down in the like- 
ness of men, 

And awed by first sight of a horse, or a 
gun, 

They flocked to his camp. Thus was 
Mexico won. 



V 

THE MONTEZUMAS 

1520 Montezuma received him as Prince of the 

Sun, 
And tribute was rendered, and homage 

was done. 
He gave Cortez a palace, and ingots of 

gold 
And filled up his helmet with jewels un- 
told. 
Montezuma he slew. Then the Mexicans 

rise 
Under great Guatemozin, who torture 

defies. 
His nobles outcry, he deigns only reply, 
"On a soft bed of roses, think you, that 

Hie?" 



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VI 

THE PACIFIC OCEAN 

1513 Nunez de Balboa to Panama steered, 

And crossing the Isthmus, an ocean ap- 
peared, 
Pacific, or South Sea, its waters they 

name, 
To shore and to sea, did the Spaniards lay 

claim. 
They heard of Peru and its Inca, or King, 
Such tales of his wealth did the buccaneers 
bring, 
1535 Pizarro set forth; and the Inca, in dread, 
Piled gold for his ransom as high as his 
head. 



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VII 
CANADA 

J 535 Captain Jacques Cartier was sent out from 

France, 
His ships up the river St. Lawrence 

advance 
To Montreal's site. There they built 

their first fort 
Where Canada Indians for trade could 

resort. 
Acadia, too, the French flag had unfurled. 
They fondly believed they had circled the 

world. 
Where the Jesuits dwelt they called it 

La Chine, 
And dreamed not there rolled a broad 

ocean between. 



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VIII 

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 

1512 Then Ponce de Leon arrived with his band 
In Florida fair, or "The Flowery Land." 
The fountain of youth he was seeking in 

vain, 
His followers perished on lagoon or plain. 
De Soto determined, the search to renew, 
The broad Mississippi rewarded his view, 
By the Father of Waters this bold soldier 

died; 
His body was sunk 'neath its onflowing 

tide. 



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VIRGINIA 

1585 Sir Walter Raleigh sailed to Pamlico 
Sound 

A new English empire hoping to found, 

But sickness and savages killed off his 
men. 

The remnant, with Drake, went to Eng- 
land again. 

Through losses and crosses, and troubles 
full sore 

Undaunted the English returned to our 
shore. 
1607 At Jamestown, Virginia, making a stand 

The first English colony grew in our land. 



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X 

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH 

Their leader, John Smith, was a man 
without fear, 

But provisions were scarce, and the In- 
dians were near. 

By the king of the tribes, who was named 
Powhatan, 

Captain John Smith was captured — un- 
happy man, 

Two comrades were killed, and the war- 
club was raised 

To dash out his brains, when the Chief 
stood amazed. 

Pocahontas rushed in, and asked for his 
life. 

Virginians and Indians were no more at 
strife. 



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XI 

NEW YORK 

1609 Hudson sailed forth in his ship the HALF 
MOON, 
For India, or China; but came very soon 
To a beautiful bay. His vessel he moored, 
And up the North River he boldly ex- 
plored. 
1614 Dutch merchants, who came with the In- 
dians to trade, 
On Manhattan Island a settlement made. 
At the town of New Amsterdam, slowly 

they work, 
'Till Englishmen seized it and named it 
New York. 



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XII 

THE PILGRIM FATHERS 

1620 That men might be equal, and conscience 
be free, 

The stern Pilgrim Fathers crossed over 
the sea. 

When their home ties were rent, to Hol- 
land they went; 

But in sixteen twenty, their course they 
bent, 

In the MAYFLOWER, over to Plymouth 
Rock. 

Thus came to our country the Puritan 
stock. 

Forefathers' Day their descendants re- 
member 

On the twenty-second of each December. 



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XIII 

NEW ENGLAND 

1623 i n the year sixteen hundred and twenty- 
three 
John Mason and Gorges to New Hamp- 
shire flee. 
1633 From sixteen thirty- three Connecticut 
grew; 
Windsor and Wethersfield, old Hartford 
too. 
1636 Roger Williams banished, sixteen thirty- 
six, 
His home in Rhode Island did finally fix. 
With Boston, Massachusetts, leading the 

van 
The New England States their existence 
began. 



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XIV 
KING PHILIP'S WAR 

Miles Standish was dead, weak was each 

little state, 
'Gainst Yankees* the Indians nursed ven- 
geance and hate. 
The Colonists drove them from their 

hunting-ground, 
1637 And wild Pequots massacred all whom 

they found. 
King Philip, the Slayer of White Men, 

arose 
1675 And called on his warriors to root out 

their foes. 
Then war was begun, and it never did 

cease 
Till Philip was shot, and the settlers had 

peace. 



*The word Yankee is the Indian corruption of 
the French, l'Anglais : the English. 



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XV 

DELAWARE 

1638 Gustavus Adolphus, among his great 
deeds, 

A colony formed of industrious Swedes, 

Who to Delaware sailed to found there 
a rest 

For all who, in Europe, were weak or op- 
pressed. 

New Jersey they covered. The Dutch 
made a stand. 
1623 The South and the North Rivers* bound- 
ed the land 

By Hudson first seen, and this they de- 
fended 
1664 Till England seized all for which they 
contended. 



*The Hudson is called the North River, the 
Delaware the South River, on the Dutch maps of 
early date. 

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XVI 

MARYLAND 

1634 In the year sixteen hundred and thirty- 
four 

Into Maryland came three hundred, or 
more, 

With Calvert, Lord Baltimore, who was 
inclined 

His Catholic brethren a refuge to find. 

Toleration to all he was first to extend, 

And many a settler whom Europe did 
send 

Found quiet along the Potomac at last, 

While the Old World in strife and dis- 
cord was cast. 



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XVII 

CAROLINA* 

1584 Carolina's first English settlement failed 
When Raleigh to seek El Dorado had 
sailed. 
1663 Sixteen sixty-three, it was granted anew 
To Albemarle, Carteret, and Clarendon, 
too, 
1680 Where Ashley, and Cooper, and ocean 
unite, 
There Charleston was built on a beauti- 
ful site. 
Its people their life-blood from noble 

strains drew, 
The staunch Huguenot, and the Cavalier 
true. 



*The province was divided into North and South 
Carolina in 1729. 

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XVIII 
PENNSYLVANIA 

As King Charles the Second owed William 
Penn 

Huge sums of money, he prayed the King 
then 
1682 In the Western world a broad province to 
give 

Where Quakers (or Friends) unmolested 
might live, 

Where Kensington elm casts its wide- 
spreading shade 

With Indians a treaty Penn loyally made. 

The City of Brotherly Love soon uprose, 

Within and without all were friends with 
no foes. 



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XIX 

GEORGIA 

1733 To Georgia came over, seventeen thirty- 
three, 
James Oglethorpe, hoping the wretched 

to free, 
The Wesleys lent aid, and the project was 

done. 
The Thirteen Colonies thus were begun. 
The seed of a NATION was now in its 

soil, 
It was watered with tears, it was planted 

with toil. 
They sowed it in strife, and we reap it in 

peace ; 
May the God of our Forefathers give it 

increase. 



AMERICAN HISTORY 
VERSIFIED 

PART II. 



XX 

THE COLONIES 

The spirit of freedom pervaded the land, 
The Colonists leagued in a brotherly band. 
They were swift to draw sword, they 

brooked not the rod — 
"Resistance to tyrants, is obedience to 
God." 
1686 In vain would the rulers their Charters 
revoke, 
Safe hid in the trunk of the old Charter 
Oak. 
1690-97 For the camp and the field, was trained 

every man, 
1702-14 By the wars of King William, and of 
Queen Anne. 



XXI 
FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS 

The English attempted to take Fort Du 

Quesne,* 
1765 Surprised by the savages, Braddock was 

slain. 
Young Washington, having assumed the 

command, 
Through the wilderness brought what was 

left of the band. 
Sept. 13, The heights of Quebec by the British 

were scaled, 
Brave Montcalm defended, yet Wolfe 

never quailed, 
Both died on the field, ere the Frenchman 

would yield; 
Wolfe cried, "I die happy/' borne off on 

his shield. 



*Now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
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XXII 

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 

The British for war debts must taxes 
impose, 
1763 They passed the Stamp Act, and America 
rose. 
Without representation we would not be 

taxed, 
And hotter and hotter, our just quarrel 
waxed. 
1773 In the harbor of Boston, seventeen seven- 
ty-three, 
A cargo of tea was cast into the sea. 
1799 Pinckney taught Europe, "We've millions 
for defence, 
Not one cent for tribute," can e'er be 
drawn hence. 



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XXIII 

LEXINGTON 

1775 At Lexington first there was shedding of 
blood, 
Where, April the nineteenth, the patriots 

stood. 
"Ye rebels, disperse!" was the insolent 

cry. 
With volleys they answered, "We know 
how to die." 
June 28, j n the harbor of Charleston, anchored a 

1775 fl *. 

fleet; 

Unawed were the Rebels though shots 

sweep the street. 
And their troops we defied, on Bunker 

Hill side, 
June 15, Where brave General Warren so gallantly 

I7 ?5 A - A 

died. 



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XXIV 

THE DECLARATION 
OF INDEPENDENCE 

To Philadelphia a congress of statesmen 
repaired, 

And our Independence was boldly de- 
clared. 

Their names to the parchment the Signers 

affix 

July 4, The Fourth of July, seventeen seventy- 
1776 

six. 

Behold a great Nation was born on that 
day! 

A leader as great came its councils to 
sway. 

First in War, first in Peace, stood Wash- 
ington then, 

He stands first in the hearts of his 
countrymen. 



XXV 
VALLEY FORGE AND SARATOGA 

The tug-of-war came, such as tries all 
men's souls 

While defeat, disaster, or gloom o'er them 
rolls. 
I7 8o There were Arnold, the traitor, and friends 
with cold heart, 

While hunger and cold took the enemy's 
part. 

But our Leader was staunch, dawn fol- 
lows the night, 
Dec. 25, To Trenton he crossed. Saratoga's great 

1776 fight, 

October 17, Which Schuyler had planned, brought 
Burgoyne's defeat. 
1780 And there sailed to our aid Rochambeau's 
French fleet. 



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XXVI 
TARLETON AND CORNWALLIS 

In vain in the South, "Tarleton's Quar- 
ter"* was given 

To men who with Sumter and Marion had 
striven. 

Though defeated to-day, to-morrow they 
rose, 

At Eutaw they conquered their well- 
equipped foes. 

Then Lafayette and Green, on both flanks 
were seen, 

From Guilford to Yorktown the conflicts 
were keen. 

Nineteenth of October, seventeen eighty- 
one, 

Cornwallis surrendered, and freedom was 
won. 



*A Continental regiment, commanded by Colonel 
Buford, was surprised and surrounded at Waxhaw. 
The British commander having offered humiliating 
terms, Buford refused to surrender, and Colonel 
Tarleton massacred them. Thence "a bullet 
through the heart, or Tarleton's Quarter," became 
a synonym for cruelty." 

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XXVII 
THE CONSTITUTION 

September the third, seventeen eighty- 
three, 

Jay, Franklin, and Adams with England, 

agree 

Sept. 3, On a treaty of peace which in Paris was 
1783 . , 

signed. 

Dec. 4, George Washington then his commission 
resigned. 
1789 Mount Vernon he leaves to be first Pres- 
ident 
Of the United States, when voters assent 
To the Constitution, the law of the land, 
The Union, the Fathers sagaciously plan- 
ned. 



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XXVIII 

THE UNITED STATES 

1803 Population poured in, and wandered afar, 
Till State after State in our flag set its 

star. 
The year eighteen three, we from Bona- 
parte bought 
Louisiana's tract, which new settlers 

sought 
Its forests to clear, and to dig and to 

delve. 
War with England broke out, eighteen 

hundred and twelve. 
Their GUERRIERE frigate, OLD 

IRONSIDES took, 
The JAVA she sank. Then with wrath 

England shook. 



XXIX 

OUR NAVY 

Learn Lawrence's lesson,* "Don't give up 
the ship !" 
June 13, It passed with his soul, from a true hero's 

1813 ii P . 

Sept. 13, Brave Perry despatched, after fighting 
13 two hours, 

"We have met the enemy, and they are 

ours; 
Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, one 

sloop," 
And Lake Erie was cleared at a single 

swoop. 
That flag which our sailors and soldiers 

unfurled 
Was counted among the Great Powers 

of the World. 



*Captain James Lawrence was killed on the 
Chesapeake during the fight with H. M. ship 
Shannon, June 13, 1813. 

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XXX 

PEACE AND PROSPERITY 

Jan. 8, xhe battle of New Orleans was fought 
1815 , & 

and won, 

Ghent, After peace had been signed and progress 

Dec. 24, 

1814 begun. 

1807 In eighteen seven, the first steamboat 

was made; 
1830 In eighteen thirty, the first railway was 

laid. 
1844 The first telegraph, in eighteen forty- 
four, 
Stretched from Washington over to Bal- 
timore. 
In arts and inventions the people expand, 
And railways and telegraphs netted the 
land. 



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XXXI 
SONS OF ANAK 

But greater than wealth, or than any 
event, 

Is, "I'd rather be right, than be Pres- 
ident," 

A noble thought uttered by Henry Clay, 

When those great triumvirs our politics 
sway; 

By Calhoun and Webster, the people were 
taught, 

The national fabric like giants they 
wrought. 

When with stormy questions the nation 
was vexed, 

In eighteen forty-six, was Texas annexed. 



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XXXII 
THE MEXICAN WAR 

March n, The quickest result was the Mexican 

1846 War, 

And volunteers gathered from near and 
from far. 
M *y> Rio Grande they crossed. General Tay- 
lor pursued, 

Feb 23, And, at Buena Vista, Santa Anna sub- 
1847 

dued. 

Mar °i847 Vera Cruz was taken b y General Scott— 
Churubusco, Contreras. Battles were 
hot, 
|ept. 13, Our soldiers assaulted Chapultepec's rock, 

1847 The City of Mexico fell with that shock. 



XXXIII 
THE GREAT WEST 

Treaty of Through treaty or purchase vast tracts 

Peace, . , 

Feb. 3, were acquired, 

1848 Our "Manifest Destiny," men were in- 
spired ; 
The "Home of the brave and the land of 

the free," 
Must cover the Continent from sea to sea. 
1848 Just then, California yielded its gold ; 

The Great West filled swiftly with set- 
tlers untold. 
When came the debate, on admitting each 

State, 
Rose hot burning discord, which ended 
in hate. 



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XXXIV 
THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES 

Eleven Southern States on secession re- 
solved, 

The Union compact was by ordinance 
dissolved. 

A convention was held, and the South's 
delegates 

A government form called Confederate 
States, 

State-Rights they upheld, and that "Cot- 
ton is King;" 

Recognition they ask, the gauntlet they 
fling. 
April 12, The twelfth day of April, eighteen sixty- 

IoOl 

one, 
Fort Sumter was taken, and war was 
begun. 



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XXXV 
MANASSAS TO VICKSBURG 

July 18 At Manassas and Bull Run the South won 

July 21, t he day. 

1861 J 

The North knit its strength for a desperate 

fray; 

Half a million of men respond to the call, 

June 25 Then upward and downward rolled vie- 
to 
July 7, tory s ball. 

Near Richmond, at Shiloh, the Southern- 
ers beat, 

April 28, New Orleans was captured by Farragut's 

1862 _. 
fleet, 

July 4, And Vicksburg succumbed. Then "The 
!863 ,„.. . . . „ 

Mississippi, 

As Lincoln proclaimed, "ran unvexed to 

the sea." 



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XXXVI 
THE FIRST IRONCLADS 

M i862 The nations looke ^ on at the huge MON- 
ITOR, 
They had learned a new lesson in mari- 
time war 

° Ct0be i r 86i When the little MANA ^SAS rammed 
with her prow. 
And the sheathed MERRIMAC. Crushed 
down by her bow 
Marches, The CUMBERLAND sinks, and the 
CONGRESS she whips: 
No more wooden frigates, but ironclad 
ships. 
Jui ^ 6 4 ' KEARSARGE, tracking cruisers, fights, 
for renown, 
The famed ALABAMA and soon sends 
her down. 



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XXXVII 

GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX 

July «; 3, The balance of fate hung on Gettysburg 
field, 

Lee slowly turned Southward reluctant 
to yield. 

To cope with Grant's host he vainly en- 
deavored, 

The March to the Sea the Southland had 
severed. 
Apri jL 9, The ninth day of April, eighteen sixty- 
five, 

Before Appomattox the armies arrive. 

Lee's sword was surrendered, the war at 
an end. 

The soldiers disbanded, and homeward 
they bend. 



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XXXVIII 
LINCOLN, GARFIELD 

While with triumph and joy his country 

was filled, 
April 14, They were changed into mourning — Lin- 
coln was killed! 
Shot by an assassin, who stilled the kind 

heart ; 
Would have saved North and South 

the shame and the smart 
Of years of misgovernment, folly and 

wrong. 
With trouble still seething, 'twas not very 

long 
When again it was called to grieve for its 

head — 
By a villain laid low, poor Garfield was 

dead. 



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XXXIX 

EXPANSION 

1867 No land in America Russians now hold, 
In eighteen sixty-seven Alaska they sold. 
The month of October, eighteen seventy- 
one, 
Fire raged in Chicago three days ere 'twas 

done. 
In science applied, how this period has 
shone, 
"clwe 10 ^e ph° n °g r aph speaks, and the long 
1866 telephone. 

With steamers upon it, and cables below, 
Across the Atlantic the human tides flow. 



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XL 

THE SPANISH WAR 

1898 While Cubans for freedom were strug- 
gling with Spain, 
Feb. 15. At Havana was blown up our battleship 

MAINE. 
May 1. At Manila, on May Day, Dewey cap- 
tured their fleet. 
San juan, San Tuan Hill's fierce battle, and Hob- 

July u > u r * 

son s brave teat, 

Santiago, And the wrecks of Cervera's great ships 
July 3- 

on the coast, 

Shewed the nations what soldiers and sail- 
ors we boast. 
Philippines, Porto Rico, and far Hawaii, 
Are under our banner; and Cuba is free. 



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OUR COUNTRY 

And now the New World is the hope of 

the Old. 
We'll not barter our birthright for power, 

or gold. 
Let this wireless message reach nations 

afar: 
We love good, hate evil, injustice, and 

war; 
Politicians may wrangle, true soldiers feel 
Respect for foemen who were worthy 

their steel. 
And "with firmness for right, as God gives 

us sight,"* 
Our Country we'll lift to the uppermost 

height. 



*Taken from Lincoln's last inaugural. 

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AMERICAN DATES 

1492 America discovered by Christopher Col- 
umbus. 

1497 North America discovered by John and 

Sebastian Cabot. 

1498 Columbus discovered the Continent. 
1506 Columbus died. 



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THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES 

1607 Virginia settled by the English. 

1614 New York settled by the Dutch. 

1620 Massachusetts settled by the Puritans. 

1623 New Hampshire settled by people from 

England. 

1624 New Jersey settled by people from Nor- 

way. 
1627 Delaware settled by people from Sweden 
and Finland. 

1633 Connecticut settled by people from Mas- 

sachusetts. 

1634 Maryland settled by people from England. 
1636 Rhode Island settled by people from Mas- 
sachusetts. 

1650 North Carolina settled by people from 

Virginia. 
1670 South Carolina settled by people from 

England and France. 
1682 Pennsylvania settled by Quakers from 

England. 
1733 Georgia settled by people from England. 



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WARS AND EVENTS 

163/ Pequot War. 

1675 King Philip's War. 

1690 King William's War. 

170- 2 Queen Anne's War. 

1756 French and Indian War. 

1765 Stamp Act. 

1773 Tea thrown into Boston Harbor. 

1775 Battle of Lexington, April 19th. 
T775 Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17th. 

1776 Declaration of Independence, 4th of July. 

1776 Battle of Trenton, (Hessians defeated). 

1777 Battle of Brandy wine. 

1777 Battle of Saratoga and surrender of Bur- 
goyne. 

1780 Battle of Camden. 

1781 Battle of the Cowpens. 

1 781 Battle of Yorktown and surrender of 

Cornwallis. 

1783 Peace declared, September 3rd. 

1789 First Congress met in New York. 

1789 Washington inaugurated President. 

1799 Washington died, December 14th. 

1803 Louisiana Purchase. 

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WARS AND EVENTS— Continued 

1807 Fulton ascended the Hudson in the first 
steamboat. 

1812 War with England. 

1812 GUERRIERE captured by the CON- 
STITUTION. 

1812 MACEDONIAN captured by the 
UNITED STATES. 

1812 PEACOCK captured by the HORNET. 

1813 Perry's victory on Lake Erie. 

1814 Peace signed in Ghent, December 24th. 

1815 Battle of New Orleans, January 8th. 
1819 First steamship, the SAVANNAH, cross- 
ed the Atlantic. 

!835 Texas declared her independence of Mex- 
ico. 

1846 Texas admitted into the Union and war 
with Mexico. 

1846 Battle of Palo Alto. 

1847 Battle of Buena Vista. 
1847 Vera Cruz captured. 
1847 Battle of Churubusco. 

1847 City of Mexico taken, September 14th. 

1848 Peace concluded. 

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WAR BETWEEN THE STATES 

1861 Confederacy proclaimed, February 4th. 

1861 Bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12th. 

1861 Battle of Manassas, July 21st. 

1862 Battle of Shiloh, April 6th. 

1862 Capture of New Orleans by Farragut, 

April 28th. 

1863 Chancellorsville, May 2nd. 

1863 Gettysburg, July 1st. 

1864 Battle of the Wilderness, May 5th. 

1865 Lee's Army surrendered at Appomattox, 

April 9th. 
1865 Lincoln assassinated, April 14th. 
1881 Garfield shot. 
1898 Spanish War, April 22nd. 
1901 McKinley murdered, September 14th. 



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